Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...City Council has been split for decades between two distinct groups. On the current council, four members are endorsed by the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), the good-government group that originally backed Plan E. The other five bill themselves as Independents...
Today's game will feature two teams with distinct styles of play...
...distinct stages lasting a minute and five seconds, the quaking stunned the populace out of sleep into an incomprehensible terror of showering plaster, scattering bric-a-brac, breaking dishes, shifting furniture, toppling walls and collapsing roofs. Waterfront houses lurched and fell apart, hotels hopped off their foundations. In the working-class district south of Market Street, tenements turned into tangled splinters, and four hotels capsized and collapsed, trapping scores. An added blast rattled the area, as the city gas plant blew up. Thousands of chimneys plunged through roofs. Many residents drowned, trapped, in deluges from ruptured water mains. An elaborate...
CONGRESS isn't the only arm of government making these odd linguistic judgments on rape. In its human rights reports on the U.S.-backed government in El Salvador, the State Department has taken to calling rape--standard punishment for women political prisoners--a form of "psychological torture," as distinct from beatings and burnings, which are placed in a category of physical torture. How, exactly, can a man "psychologically", and not physically, rape a woman...
...other three divisions onto an almost magical plane is the identities of the contending teams themselves. No celluloid Field of Dreams can compete with the real-life resurrections that are a recurrent theme of this year's pennant sagas. In particular, four teams vying for the playoffs boast a distinct personality. Whoever prevails can be said to vindicate not only a theory of how the game should be played but, perhaps, for those who hail baseball as a religion, a philosophy of life as well...